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Monochromatic Fault
2026




 
‘Folly’, CNC Line Drawing Etched into Cement Board backed with MDF held by wooden backing and bolted to mimic 19th Century folly

(folly, an architectural signifier of 19th Century Land ownership appropriated as ‘industrial ruins’)


‘Symptom of Abandoned Land’ Sculptural Video on CRT Broadcast (2min17secs)
Google Maps Walkthrough of area surrounding Dunsink Landfill, Finglas.



‘Ash Pile 2022’ Google Map Screenshot of Quarry Pile Ash 2022 of Poolbeg Incinerator as mimic of Daguerreotype (an early photographic process)  Laser Etched Copper Plate


‘(down to a) Monochromatic Fault’ installation view of copper plate and video piece on 40 inch portrait Walker Screen, consisting of autotheory essay prose with site research


‘Monotoned to Signal’, sculptural audio piece (8mins17secs) Flushed ventilation grills on MDF panel to give illusion of audio essay seeping out of ventilation







Exhibition Text:

‘(down to a) Monochromatic Fault’ ruminates on a speculative relationship between Dunsink Landfill, Finglas and Poolbeg Incinerator through the two sites' respective ties to the Early 19th Century ‘Ordnance Survey’ reflecting on extraction, commodification, waste and value. The work is a spatial essay mapping parallels between the ‘Irish Pastoral’ and ‘Industrial Ruins’ in the context of Ireland’s historical relationship to photography, contemporary technologies and digital systems which reshape Irish Landscape and collective memory. Navigating both the digital ‘post site’ and historical residuals of tangible landscapes, capturing both the physical and digital debris of regrowth, development and degrowth.  The installation style feels intentionally restless and indeterminate, consisting of spectral fragments of works, as if just thoughts loosely ruminating within a space. Through appropriating colonial objects, such as the ‘folly’ and the ‘daguerreotype’, ruminating on cyclical infrastructural layers.